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LONDON ACCORDS|OFFICIALS SILENT HELD “OLD STUFF” Reich Officials Declare Air Clause Is Only New Feature. \ (Continued From First Page.) an air attack and favors the pro- posal of two sepavate pacts for West- ern Europe, as cutlined by Sir John Simon, British foreign secretary. Authoritative sources confirmed that Great Britain clearly did not intend to indorse the French proposal for an Eastern European securities pact, as thus far formulated, when it joined France in a declaration for an Eastern European mutual assist- ance agreement. Now it is indicated that this latter agreement may also take the form of an aviation alliance. Dutch Not Invited. It was explained that the Nether- lands was not invited to join the air pact because the intetnion is for the scheme to be initiated by those countries signatory to the Locarno treaty. Following the week-end conversa- tions with British government officials which brought about the Anglo- French agreement, Premier Pierre- Etienne Flandin of France left for Paris by airplane. His foreign min- ister, Pierre Laval, left for the French capital by boat train. The new scheme to buttress the shaky foundations of European peace, envisaging Germany's restoration to complete equality in the society of nations, commanded the attention of continental chancelleries today. Product of the week end’s mo- mentous conversations between the premiers and foreign ministers of Great Britain and France, the new formula would provide for a simul- taneous settlement of all the prob- lems which currently beset European stability. Gave Impetus to France. ‘The negotiations gave France’s campaign for security its most im- portant impetus since the World War in a proposal for regional aerial de- fense pacts to provide the nations participating with reciprocal assur- ances of assistance in repelling an unprovoked aerial attack. Great Britain and France plainly indicated their readiness to enter into such a defensive alliance and sug- gested that the other European powers be invited to join. The conversations made certain that negotiations with Germany will be opened immediately looking to- ward settlement of the armament and security questions and the Reich’s re- turn to the League of Nations. The enticing bait to be hung be- fore Chancellor Adolf Hitler is a promise of repeal of the military clauses of the treaty of Versailles. Such a concession would bring a suc- cessful culmination to the Reichs- fuehrers unremitting campaign to restore Germany to its full stature as & sovereign power. The French and British govern- ments, sponsoring the new plan, with Italy's approval, are convinced their formula is so fair that Germany must accept or forever be an outcast. France Forsakes Stand. By its terms France no longer will insist that the questions of security and Germany's return to Geneva take priority over legalization of the Reich's rearmament. Instead, it is agreed that all problems affecting European tranquillity shall be accord- ed parallel treatment. In making this sacrifice France ob- tained from Great Britain the recog- nition of ihe security claims which have formed the corner stone of her lvr‘llternnnonal policy since the World ar. HAILED IN BRUSSELS. Anglo-French Agreements Are Wel- comed. BRUSSELS, February 4 (#).—The results of the Franco-British conver- sations were welcomed by the Belgian press today. The Etoile Belge expressed the opinion the London 'accords would save Belgium from the dangers of outside aggression. A note of warning, however, was sounded by the Nationalist Nation Belge, which asserted: “The military clauses of Versailles are dead. Beware of the territorial clauses. Germany today harvests the benefits of its bold gesture of October, 1933, when she left the League.” ITALY IS DOUBTFUL. Hold Chances of Germany's Return Is Remote. ROME, February 4 (#£)—An Italian government spokesman said today Italy is doubtful of whether Germany will return to Geneva, despite the Anglo-French accords reached in London this last week end. ‘The government’s information from Berlin, he said, is that the chances of Reichsfuehrer Hitler taking Ger- many back into the League of Na- tions are remote. Nevertheless, the spokesman de- clared Italy considers the result reached at London as even better than she had hoped for and the Italian government believes the Lon- don aecords tend to increase the se- curity and peace of Europe. Scouts Increase in India. ‘The Boy Scout movement in India made a greater increase in 1934 than in any previous year. The number of Scouts jumped from 190,620 to 231,956. Bombay and the United Provinces head the list with gains of over 100,000 members each. SPECIAL NOTICES. onal Mutual Insurance Company of the District of Columbia will be held Wednesday, February 13, K street n.v. il JAMES M. MacDOWELL. Secretary. OFFICE OF LANSBURGH & BRO., - ingion. D, O February 4. fons o e ual meeting of the shareholders of Lans- urgh & Bro., for the election of directors Serve the ensuing vear. and for the transaction of such other business as m: perly come before said meeting, will be at the office of the corporation, 420 Seventh 8t. N.W., on Monday, March 4, 1935. at 2 p.m. MARK LANSBURGH. Secretary. I _WILL NOT BE RESPONSIELE FOI sny debis contracted by any person otber than myself. FRANCIS M. VALLANDING- HAM. Mechanicsville, Md. 4 THE P sts. n.w.. 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The State Department is, of course, intensely interested in the new de- velopments in Europe, because any improvement in the political situation to which Germany may be a party is regarded as an important step to- ward an eventual reopening of the limitation of arms conversations. Dis- armament is next to multilateral trade agreements, the question closest to the heart of Secretary of State Cordell Hull. But, in view of the unmis- takable trend of American public opinion against foreign entanglements, regardless of how platonic they may be, the State Department is reluctant to express publicly any definite opin- ion on what has happened in London. It takes the attitude that it welcomes any move which may lead to relax- ation of the present tension, but, after all, Eurcpe’s affairs are her own. Wise Step Recognized. The fact that the British and the French statesmen have recognized for the first time since the end of the ‘World War that Germany should be recognized as an equal is considered here as a wise step which might lead to an improvement of the relations between the Reich and her neighbors. American diplomats have frequently hinted in their conversations with their Europeon colleagues that since Germany has actually rearmed, noth- ing but force could stop her from junking the military clauses of the Versailles treaty. Since neither France nor her allies could conceiv- ably adopt such a method to main- tain the Versailles treaty, the Amer- ican diplomats believe an understand- ing on the existing German forces should be reached. Hopes for Germany’s Return. The administration is consequently gratified at reports from London that the French and the British have be- gun to realize the wisdom of the theory that Germany should be treated as an equal, and hope Germany will soon express her willingness to return to a limitation of arms conference at Geneva. The other matters which occupied the Franco-British statesmen, such as a treaty of non-aggression in the air is being followed with interest without, however, being given an exaggerated importance. U. S. MAY SEND ENVOYS ABROAD TO DRUM UP TRADE (Continued From First Page.) l purpose to be expended at the Presi- dent’s discretion,” Oliver told Secre- tary Hull, “we will ask that you sub- mit a supplementary estimate for that purpose to the directors of the budget.” The bulk of the Secretary’s testi- mony had to do with efforts to re- store foreign trade. “We face vigorous world competi- tion in both our agricultural and our industrial products,” he declared. “Slamming the door shut against for- eign products, we have found the door shut against our own products. * * * “Foreign countries do not have the purchasing power with which to pay for our goods. They cannot borrow indefinitely. They can not send us un};j appreciable additional quantity of gold. “We have reached the end of the If the world as a whole is to progress we must get away from tke idea that acceptance of the products of other countries is inimical to our = toration increase at only $153,299. own interests * * *.” ‘The dismantling of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic erce, which had reached its peak under Herbert Hoover, was one of the first moves of the Democratic regime. Obviously the object of suspicion of being a “political pet” of the for- mer President, the bureau was raked fore and aft. Secretary Roper re- called 107 out of 168 commercial at- taches in various countries; cut sal- aries of others, and announced that 21 foreign offices were being cloeed. The appropriation for 1934 was sliced from $4,000,000 to $1,800,000. Concurrently, bureau workers, by executive order, were deprived of their civil service status, the way thus being paved for their replacement by pa- tronage appointments. COMMITTEE ASKS $6,164,417 RAISE IN 4 DEPARTMENTS (Continued From First Page.) he rapped the “vicious” parole system, recalling that “Baby Face” Nelson, who was public enemy No. 1 until Justice agents’ guns got him, had been paroled. One out of every eight persons ar- rested in kidnapings, Hoover testified, had received clemency either through parole, probation, pardon, respite or “leave” from jail. Increase Big Factor. The committee said the actual in- crease in funds for the Justice De- partment, exclusive of salary restora- tion, was only approximately $1,516,- 000. Around $31,000 additional was allowed for an increased staff to de- fend the Government in customs cases. A slight increase was given, also, for enforcement of anti-trust laws. The committee figured the Com- merce Department’s non-salary res- ‘The Aeronautics Bureau was allowed $5,909,800, an increase of $398,000 over 1935 appropriations, but $99,900 less than budget estimates. ‘The Commerce De t's major increase was of $29,950 over budget estimates, or $182,400 for promoting commerce in Central and South Amer- ica. The committee explained the $53,900 boost over 1935 funds was based upon information “that the territory to the south of us presents & good field for trade exploitation and that a reasonable outlay of expense by the way of furnishing trade data to American exporters will bring an ultimate return to the Government in the form of income taXes many times more than the amount appropriated.” A reflection of recent ship disasters was contained in the committee’s recommendation that the Bureau of Navigation ahd Steamboat Inspection be given the entire $1,598,000 esti- mated by the budget, or $233,136 over 1935, First pictures made in Washington of Mr. and Mrs. George Scarlette, Chevy Chase elopers. Upper: An affec- tionate pose at Union Sta- tion. Below: The couple in custody of Deputy Sheriff Talmage Zipper of Savannah, Ga. (left background). —sStar Staff Photos. m«v = POICNANCY IS GONE FROM BRUNO TRIAL Witnesses in Early Stages Lent Case Atmosphere of High Purpose. BY KATHLEEN NORRIS. PALO ALTO, Calif, February 4 (N.ANA)—When one looks back upon all these days in the Flemington Court House, as the great trial goes into still another week, one sees & great change in atmosphere. The vital beginnings of this tre- mendous case seem dim and far away. It has lost the poignancy and the purity of the effect produced by those first witnesses for the State whose testimony opened it—Lindbergh, Anne Lindbergh and their child’s young Scottish nurse. They gave to it an atmosphere breathing of a high pur- pose magnificently sustained—sus- tained above their own personal feel- ings of grief, their own desire for privacy. 1t has lost that element now. In the beginning we called it “the Lind- bergh case” because the tall, stooped figure of our great airman dominated it. Now we call it “the Hauptmann case,” and when we think of it we see only that supple figure with the waxen, expressionless face and the loosely-crossed hands; we hear again that guttural low voice in noncom- mittal reply. Just Another Murder Trial. ‘When the sus) man took the stand as chief witness in his own defense we seemed strangely to lose dignity—to lose direction. It was no longer the Nation uniting with the single purpose of placing responsibility for an unprecedented crime. It was just another murder trial, with the usual game of battledore and shuttle- cock going on between the district attorney and the defendant. We in the crowded court room could lose sight of the main facts while we watched a scoreboard; now a point for Hauptmann, now a point for ‘Wilentz. The world outside is inclined to share this view. The world is inclined to say, “why, but he hasn't a chance! They have evidence enough. Why not end this farce of fencing and parry- ing, why not refuse him any further opportunity to exhibit his adroitness? He isn't getting anywhere. He isn't clearing himself of one charge brought against him. What he is doing is to create an impression of being defen- sible, of scoring this point or that.” But we aren't the jury. The jury isn't seeing the newspapers; the jury isn’t getting the benefit of the inces- sant and universal discussion that is going on about this case. What the Jurors get they get in the court room, no more and no less. And if this man, 80 heavily clouded with suspicion, can make them feel that there is even the ghost of a chance of his being inno- cent, his verbal duelling with Wilentz won't be thrown away. 20 Days Unforgetable. I write this in California. My 20 days in Flemington at the history- making kidnaping trial are already & part of the never-to-be-forgotten past. The hot trains, the heaped snows of Flemington, the crowds, the stifing alr of the court room, Reilly at his table, Wilentz glancing triumphantly about the court room as. he poses an un- answerable _question, Hauptmann erect, wide-shouldered, well-groomed in his chair—all these are memory now. l‘l?l‘l“ how they live in one’s more. We will never forget Anne Lindbergh, quiet, low-voiced, self-con- trolled, with her hands on the little i sleeping-garment that had beloue;!TcHAUFFEUR RETURNS to her baby; nor Lindbergh himself, answering question after question with tireless patience and conscientious care. Jafsie elated and dramatic; the Osborns, father and son, going over chart after chart of the handwriting specimens; the dramatic and thrilling hours when Koehler demonstrated what fibers of wood could mean, and to what tremendous results the slight- est clue might lead—all these were great moments of the trial. But the one that comes back to me most clearly, as I think the whole thing over, is the day when Betty Gow talked on the stand. Somehow that Scottish girl's story tore at one’s heart; somehow the lost baby's very father and mother failed to put so convincingly before our eyes the full | values of the event that shocked the whole world on a March morning nearly three years ago. Routine of Normal Home, Just what is happening today, and what will happen tonight in 1,000,000 quiet American homes, her story. Just the routine of a happy, beloved baby, secure in his father's protection and his mother’s love; waving down at mummy from a nursery window, trot- ting contentedly down to have tea with her a little later, galloping into the kitchen with all the ecstasy of & normal child at going where he wasn’t supposed to go, and finally being captured and carried off upstairs for his cereal and his prune sauce, his Zweiback and his orange juice, his woolly pajamas with their warmly closed little feet, his rub with medi- cated ofl and his final adoring kisses. All so safe and so happy up to this point; en American home with a baby in it—the commonplace that is a miracle and yet a commonplace still. Betty Gow gave us all this; told of going down to her own dinner, and of that fatally protracted talk with another household sérvant ebout a dress. Her voice went on steadily, but a little quickened now, a little lower, to her return to the nursery, her shutting of windows and admit- tance of tempered light, her reach- ing the crib and groping confidently for the baby—— And there, with her tears, with the sudden stopping of her voice, came to me the terrific moment of the whole trial. Not the moment when the jury brings in its verdict, as I believe it may in another week, will equal it. To every man and every woman who had ever gone to a crib and bent down to pick up a sweet, warm, drowsy lit- tle creature in the soft darkness of a night nursery, imagination must turn sick at the thought of so terrible a moment. It ushered in, that one mo- ment, the darkest hours that our Na- tion has known for many a long year. It made the most fortunate, the most admired and envied man and woman in the world the most pitiable; it rocked the world like an earthquake, It put civilization back. With other men and women I had for years been fighting for the aboli- tion of capital punishment; early in March, 1932, I resigned from the so- clety. If there are men in the world who can steal and destroy a baby, who can torture his parents with en- couraging news of him, after his death, and who can take money for it, then better be done with them—better send them out of the world like the twisted, dangerous, mad dogs they are! Comge, J1sh , 2ar, dowion trinkets, and watches into MONEY A.KXahn Jne. e | Arthur J. Sundlun, Pres. 42 YEARS at 935 F STREET I\ WITH SOCIALITE BRIDE FOR COURT HEARING (Continued From First Page.) to their arrest. Scarlctte waived ex- tradition and announced his willing- :eu to return and face the charge ere. Anne Cooke returned to Washing- ton Friday night after accompanying her sister and brother-in-law on their honeymoon. Both sisters denied that either Scarlette or themselves nad taken any jewelry which did not be- long to them. Anne interceded in be- half of Scarlette, but Mrs. Cooke de- clined to withdraw the warrant. ‘The three, taking an automobile, registered in Jane’s name, and the latter’s two pet dogs, cut the tele- phone wires, Mrs. Cooke told police, before they left. They went first to the home of Scarlette’s parents in North Carolina and then left for the South. Tells of Dodging Reporters. The trio was located several days later in a Brunswick, Ga., hotel. Asked where they went from there, Mrs. Scarlette laughed and tossed her head. | “Just around and about,” she said. “We dodged the reporters and any one else who seemed to want to question us and had a grand time.” “It was a swell trip,” grinned Scar- lette. “While we were in South Geor- gla we got some deer hunting on one of the sea islands. Look at that!” ‘The bridegroom pointed with pride to the pelt of a large deer. As to their plans for the future, they were too uncertain to discuss until the “family difficulty” could be ironed out. Dogs Lost in Crash. ‘The two dogs which Mrs. Scarlette had with her—a prize-winning wire- haired terrier and a young Boston terrier—fled in the excitement that followed the automobile accident last Saturday night. The car was badly damaged. 3 Mr. and Mrs. Scarlette took their luggage to a nearby hotel and then returned to look for the dogs. Scar- lette was arrested by Zipper while searching for the missing pets. De- scriptions of the dogs were left in Savannah and Mrs. Scarlette hopes to have -word of them later. e 750,000 TAKE HOLY BATH Swarm River Ganges for Fete of Ardhodaya Yoga. CALCUTTA, February 4 (P)— ‘Three-quarters of a million persons invaded the city yesterday to bathe in the “holy” Ganges in celebration of the Ardhodaya Yoga Festival, wh,i'll:h &u;m everguz'l years. oat hospi carrying large supplies of disinfectants circulated among the bathers. Elaborate pre- cautions were taken to safeguard the city against epidemics. Tinkering With Laws HAUPTMANN ALIB PLOT BY RICHBERG WITH AUTO HEADS CHARGED BY LEWIS UPHELD BY FRIEND] oo e Says Bruno Played Music With Him on “Ransom Night.” __(Cohtinued Prom First Page) sfopped in the road to read it. How- ever, which I was reading the mail, I looked up #nd I noticed & car come around the bend, but before I could get into motion this car pulls on the wrong side of the road aud he parks on an incline, which is an entrance to a cornfield.” Ladder in Auto. “Now, as you passed that car,” C. Lloyd Fisher of defense counsel asked, “did you notice anything in the car other than the occupant?” “Yes, I did.” “What did you see there?” “I saw two sections of & ladder.” He said the man in the car didn't look like a foreigner; appeared to be “a city chap.” He said the car carried Mercer County, N. J., license plates and was a dark blue or black sedan. Attorney General David T. Wilentz produced newspaper articles bearing his name, in which he was purported to have said Hauptmann was the man. Lupica declared he had been paid for the articles, but said he did not write them; also, that he com- plained to the newspaper’s city editor about them. Pictures Identified. Sommer. a surprise witness, insisted he saw two men and & woman with a blond baby on the night the Lindbergh child was taken, identifying a picture of Pisch as that of one of the men and saying a picture of the Morrow maid, Violet Sharpe, who later killed herself, closely resembled the woman. ‘Wilentz accsued Sommer of being & professicnal witness. Wilentz said the State's present plans called for nc more than an hour and a half of rebuttal testimony after defense evidence is completed. Chief Defense Counsel Reilly, mean- while, reiterated his complaint over police handling of his witnesses, and charged an attempt had been made to “frame” him Sunday at his Brooklyn home, “The State police of New Jersey,” Reilly said, “have interfered enough with defense witnesses. Some of my witnesses have been told to go home, that they would not be needed, and when I wanted them they were gone.” He did not implicate Wilentz in his charge, calling him “a square shooter.” ‘To reports that witnesses would be ca}tl’ed to clear Violet Sharpe, Reilly said: “The Alphonse-and-Gaston days of this trial are over.” Tells of Strange Visit, The attempt to “frame” him, Reilly said, was made when “a Negro dolled up in a black bearskin coat” called at his home and offered to fix up a story about Hauptmann “that would be be- lieved even though it was a fake” Reilly said the man suggested a walk through the park while he told the story—a suggestion which Reilly asserted he suspected was based on the likelihood some one would take a pic- ture of them together for “framing” urposes. “I told him to get out,” Reilly said. Reilly obtained permission of New York City officials to call Dr. M. Ed- ward Marten, deputy chief medical examiner, to testify in support of the defense contention the Lindbergh baby died of pneumonia and not a fractured skull. May Call Schwarzkopf. Defense counsel also made efforts to obtain Col. H. Norman Schwarz- kopf, head of the New Jersey State Ppolice, as a defense witness to get into tdhe record a police report on the lad- er. Hauptmann's attorneys asserted they had the original report of a State jofficial setting forth that the builder of the kidnap ladder was an un- skilled left-handed workman. Haupt- man is right-handed. Squire Johnson, a member of the construction staff of the State De- partmeAt of Institutions and Agen- cles, who made the report in question, was understood to be reluctant to tes- tify, according to defense counsel. Reilly faced legal handicaps in ob- taining either as a witness, because of possible State objections that neither was a qualified expert. Hauptmann himself showed in- creasing evidences of despondency—a mental condition in marked contrast to his exuberance after the conclu- sion of his own appearance on the stand. His guards said his spirits had fallen steadily as defense witnesses were cross-examined. He was visited yesterday by his baby son, Mannfried, in the county jail and wept when Mrs. Anna Hauptmann took the baby away. “He felt very bad,” his wife said after the brief visit. Poison Also Kills Birds. ‘Wild birds, which are the natural enemies of locusts in South Africa, are dying in flocks after eating locusts which have been sprayed with arsenite (trlf‘sodn in an effort to exterminate em. ROOF REPAIRS Immediate Service Reasonsble Prices GICHNER 418 6th St.N.W. NA. 4370, Br.5 LAWTERS' BRIEFS RUSH PRINTING BYRON S. ADAMS ¥ —is one major occupation in Washington. - Another and better one is keeping warm and healthy at low cost with Marlow’s Famous Reading Anthracite.. 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